Illustrator "Area Text" to "Point Text" ?

BosmaGrafiek.NL

Posted 01 November 2008 - 03:57 PM

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Is there a command or workaround in Illustrator to convert "Area Text" to "Point Text" ?

This would be very useful for all those text elements that we converted from FreeHand and show up in illustrator as "mini columns". Such a text is locked up inside its non-expanding "Area".
We prefer them to behave like decent "Point Texts" with just one anchor point for every text element.

ProMapper

Posted 03 November 2008 - 08:43 AM

Rick Johnson has made a script that does that (scroll a bit down on the page). I haven't tried this myself though.

Wow he has good tools out there, but alas they are all for Mac. Any programming pro to convert these for Windows platform? I tried opening one file after decompressing it by Stuffit but it is all gibberish.